Monthly Archives: September 2011

Bodyguard is a short story written by Karl Bunker. This story was published in the March/April edition of Fantasy & ScienceFiction. Bunker does a great job of creating a story universe, not just a story, by starting this story in … Continue reading →

So, now you have a chapter-by-chapter outline. This gives you a rough idea of what’s going to happen in each chapter, how many chapters you have, and what your plotline is going to be. But, it’s probably not quite right. … Continue reading →

Sword of Verses tells the tale of two villages in cultural conflict with the local city after the city makes a devastating mistake. The story is told through the eyes of a sister and a brother who are swept up … Continue reading →

The Second Kalandar’s Tale is a novelet translated from the original Arabic by Sir Richard Burton and retold by Francis Marion Soty. This story was published in the March/April edition of Fantasy & ScienceFiction. The story starts within the frame of … Continue reading →

You sketched your outline. You asked yourself a great many questions. Now, it’s time to refine your sketch into a chapter-by-chapter projection of your novel. Wait! Don’t I mean scene-by-scene? That’s what most writers say, right? You start with the … Continue reading →